The paper deals with a group of Old English lexemes the meaning ʻpowerʼ, namely: wald/weald, mund, rīki/rīce, dōm. use dōm in genre-variegated original texts gives grounds for referring them to semantic field «Law», i.e., very important cluster vocabulary ancient Angles and Saxons. Working words expressing concept «power», authors set goal analyzing nuances that differentiate OE wald, etc., whi...

This article gives a summary of the Swedish and Danish data on verb placement in Nordic Word order Database (NWD; Lundquist et al. 2019). The were collected using an elicited production paradigm. I discuss variation four constructions: embedded clauses with respect to adverbs (embedded V2), main preverbal sentence-medial adverbs, clause wh-questions. cover only. results are discussed direct com...

This paper presents a new phase-based theory of verb-second and indeed model the left periphery. I argue that V-to-C movement verb to phase head Fin0 has profound repercussions on clausal syntax which explains well-known differences between Modern Germanic V2 languages Romance non-V2 with respect topicalisation. also explore how proposed analysis can account for linear restriction prefield in a...

This paper gives an overview of the results from three data collection sessions that took place in Norway 2018, which specifically targeted placement subjects, objects and particles main clauses. The reveal a fairly high amount variation relative linear order phrasal subjects negation, verb particles, while pronouns show little or no variation. We view these wider context within North Germanic ...

Studies of spoken-word recognition have revealed that competition from embedded words differs in strength as a function of where in the carrier word the embedded word is found and have further shown embedding patterns to be skewed such that embeddings in initial position in carriers outnumber embeddings in final position. Lexico-statistical analyses show that this skew is highly attenuated in J...

This study presents the results of a large-scale comparison of various measures of pitch range and pitch variation in two Slavic (Bulgarian and Polish) and two Germanic (German and British English) languages. The productions of twenty-two speakers per language (eleven male and eleven female) in two different tasks (read passages and number sets) are compared. Significant differences between the...

Abstract Our article is dedicated to the relation of a given name’s phonological structure and gender referent. Phonology has been shown play an important role with regard marking on name in some (Germanic) languages. For example, studies English German have detail that female male names significantly different structures. However, little known whether these patterns are valid beyond (closely r...

We do not need to imagine children becoming sensitive to and then imitating the complex set of durational processes found in English (and other Germanic languages) in order to acquire them. English, like many other systems that must remain viable through successions of reproductive cycles, has straightforward solutions to its developmental challenges embedded within its structure. In particular...

This paper presents a real-time method for Spoken Language Identification based on the entropy of the posterior probabilities of language specific phoneme recognisers. Entropy based discriminant functions computed on short speech segments are used to compare the model fit to a specific set of observations and language identification is performed as a model selection task. The experiments, perfo...

This paper examines the relationship between phonetic exponents of syntagmatic prosodic structuring and functions in speech communication in English, German, and French. Two strands are distinguished in this substance-function relation: the transmission of semantic structures in propositional, appellative, and expressive meaning, and the facilitation of this transfer from sender to receiver by ...